Statistical data for Benefit sanctions

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Could you please send me all statistical data regarding;

1. The total number of sanctions given since April 2020.

2. The total monetary value taken from claimants from these sanctions.

3. The number of these sanctions successfully overturned at appeal

4. The number of these sanctions currently in the appeals process, as of the date of this FIO request.

Yours faithfully,

Joe Hannigan

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J Roberts left an annotation ()

You might be interested in this:

Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2020 (experimental)

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics...

Joe Hannigan left an annotation ()

Thanks for the link, this doesn't quite encapsulate the data I am after for the date ranges asked for but it is informative never-the-less.

DWP Central FOI Team,

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Dear Joe Hannigan,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 14th
May.

Yours sincerely,

DWP Central FoI Team

Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Statistical data for Benefit sanctions'.

I find it hard to believe that it would take 3 days to search computers for information and this is just another tactic the DWP use to obfuscate the facts. It is publicly held knowledge and I refuse to see how or why the public are not meant to see it.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

Yours faithfully,

Joe Hannigan

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Statistical data for Benefit sanctions'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

Yours faithfully,

Joe Hannigan

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Dear Joe Hannigan,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 14th
June.

Yours sincerely,

DWP Central FoI Team

J Roberts left an annotation ()

'Alert: Very Big Rise in Universal Credit Benefit Sanctions'

Dr David Webster

17/11/21

https://mrfrankzola.wordpress.com/2021/1...

'Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 9 September 2021'

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics...